Is there an equivalent of 'which' on the Windows command line?

Question

As I sometimes have path problems, where one of my own cmd scripts is hidden (shadowed) by another program (earlier on the path), I would like to be able to find the full pa

Answer 1

In PowerShell, it is gcm, which gives formatted information about other commands. If you want to retrieve only path to executable, use .Source.

For instance: gcm git or (gcm git).Source

Tidbits:

• Available for Windows XP.
• Available since PowerShell 1.0.
• gcm is an alias of Get-Command cmdlet.
• Without any parameters, it lists down all the available commands offered by the host shell.
• You can create a custom alias with Set-Alias which gcm and use it like: (which git).Source.
• Official docs: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee176842.aspx